A real mechanic has a wooden dowel that fits in their ear
*rpms rising slowly*
Jackson James
James Diaz
>Going up slight incline to mountain highway.
>Car loosing power for once going up the hill.
>Reduce throttle and and shift down
>Nothing happens at first but car makes weird metal crunch sound
>Car suddenly gets a jolt of power and goes to strait to the redline and stays their.
>Hear what I will find out to be the transmission commiting suicide and taking the engine with it.
>Nothing I can do but slam on breaks to get it to stop
>Even had to hand break before it stopped on the side of the road
>Engine does it death rattle in before I turn off the car
>Get out and check the long trail of oil and transmission fluid left by my car
>Everyone in my family thinks I didn't have enough oil because I was going to change the oil the next day.
It was clearly the fucking transmission and family ignored my concerns about it when I asked about it the month leading to it. At least 8 didn't waste a fucking oil change.
Elijah Gonzalez
you can get one from harbor freight for like 5 bucks. i've had one for 2 years now and it still works just fine
Gavin Wright
>mfw Masters in EE
Easton Sanders
>drive shitbox that breaks shit constantly
>nothing breaks for a week
The worst problems are always the ones that develop silently and strike in the middle of the highway in the middle of the night with no possible hope of patching it and limping home.